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Paley And Charles Lyell: The Scientific Revolution

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When we think of the scientific revolution it is interesting to acknowledge to how much contribution Thomas Malthus, William Paley and Charles Lyell have had and seen it as more as a continuation from their own work. Charles Darwin despite his health has created a transformation to how we see nature and understand the concepts of nature within the nineteenth century. He began from bringing in knowledge and created his concept of The Origin of Species and moving towards other works that lead him to create something that transformed to even in today’s modern society in how we see the creation of nature moving away from the concept of how everything was created by a God. Yes, there have been negative views on this theory mainly on how he doesn’t
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The Scientific Revolution occurred roughly between 1550 and 1700. Some people also refer to the time period to be between the lives of Nicholas Copernicus and Issac Newton, to state who the revolution started with and who it ended with (Hatch). It doesn't mean there aren't changes to our scientific processes today, this was just a time period in our history that has recorded information of large changes happening often. The changes were very large and many people were against the views of the men who made the changes/discoveries. Since people put their religion first, the sudden views that made God nonexistent were immediately ignored by citizens and courts ordered many scientists to stay in their homes at all times.

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What Charles discovered went against the teaching of the church. Most of the contemporaries of the time believed in divine creation as well. This is why Darwin had to subtly poke at natural selection in his works and did not publish his famous book On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection for decades after his voyage on the HMS Beagle. Today, new bold claims in science are not as critiqued as hard at they were in the

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The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde: Charles Darwin’s revolutionary idea of evolution sparked dramatic debate in the scientific and, most especially, religious communities, as well as inspiring a new wave of thought in the minds of the world. There was also plenty of controversy, particularly from the many believers of creationism during the Victorian Age. But by denying creationism with his own theories, Darwin “made room for strictly scientific explanations of all natural phenomena”, and as a result, initiated a “powerful intellectual and spiritual revolution” whose effects last to this day. Its profound impact meant that “nearly every field of social and cultural life was affected by the idea of evolution.” Darwin’s idea of natural

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Considering that creationism had been ingrained into virtually every facet of English culture and society for the last one thousand years going back all the way into the dark ages of Europe, it wasn 't easy for naturalist theories to prevail. The Renaissance during the 1400 's and 1500 's certainly threw a wrench into the status-quo but it wasn 't until the Darwinian Evolution during the mid-1800s that these evolutionary beliefs became widely accepted. Early scientists and thinkers like Georges Cuvier, Comte De Buffon, and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck built the foundation of evolutionary principles that Charles Darwin would later capitalize on in his research. After the publication of his famous book On the Origin of Species, a backlash, especially

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The Scientific Revolution “refers to historical changes in thought & belief, to changes in social & institutional organization, that unfolded in Europe between roughly 1550-1700” (Hatch). This revolution was a time to replace

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Together, Bacon and Darwin make up the dream team of the scientific world. Bacon’s four idols can be related to Darwin’s natural selection by: the idol of the tribe as the opinion of natural selection, the idol of cave relates to the impact natural selection has on man, the third idol, the marketplace, reflects the conversation about natural selection, and the idol is theater is the idea that natural selection suggests to the public. Charles Darwin is a crucial character in the history of scientific thought, his biggest role pertained to natural selection, and from then on the idea of evolution. Ed Grabianowski commented in his summary of natural selection that, “Natural Selection is the engine that drives evolution.” (Grabianowski)

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In the paper, “Origin of Species”, author Ray Comfort presents opinions and non-supported assumptions to discredit the contributes of Charles Darwin to science literary. Charles Darwin contributions to science by his data, theories, and arguments for evolution by natural selection as exceptionally important in how scientist today classify and explanation evolution acting in nature. From variation in phenotype to the passing of favorable traits to succeeding generations, to how life itself become about set the foundation for scientist then and now to investigate natural phenomena all around us. Furthermore, this is why we, as scientist, should evaluate the validity of Darwin’s conclusions/statements in regard to evolution is a more appropriate

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However, this shows change in the way that the people are finally questioning what the church teaches, rather than following blindly. Ultimately, the Scientific Revolution was a time of change in the way that people saw the material

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Charles Darwin spent years upon years researching and experimenting his theory of natural selection and evolution. During the 1800’s Darwin had this belief that all living things arose from one common ancestor, however by saying this meant that he was questioning God’s creation of living things. Many were against Darwin when they heard this theory, because they were strong believers in God, and if they questioned that God is the creator, then everything they have ever believed in will no longer be true. Over the next couple of years, Darwin secretly experiments and creates theories to prove that natural selection and evolution is true. He creates a lot of evidence to prove what he is saying, however he is often doubted by friends, enemies, and family.

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